Issue Analysis and
Action Plan
Prepare an issue analysis of an incident that occurred in a health care organization and create a leadership action plan (8-10 pages) that will help to address the specific incident but will also help to drive safety and quality improvements throughout the organization.
In this third assessment in the course, you will assume the role of a newly promoted quality manager at your local hospital. This role requires you to address deficiencies by improving organizational culture, providing leadership oversight, and cultivating staff relationships within the organization. While you have many priorities in this new role, one of your first is to analyze a recent incident that occurred within the organization and to create a leadership action plan with recommended strategies and tactics to address not just the specific incident, but to drive safety and quality improvement throughout the organization.
This assessment differs from the first assessment in that with this assessment, as the quality manager, your focus is broader. Rather than focusing only on identifying specific actions the organization can take to remedy a particular incident that occurred, you are concentrating on what steps you will take as the quality manager to influence the organization’s leadership to cultivate a fair and just culture. You will determine what departments, what leaders, and what personnel you will collaborate with to improve quality for the whole organization. In this type of culture, safety is at the forefront of everyone’s job and all associates welcome the opportunity to highlight issues—without fear of reprisal—so that they can be addressed at a systemic level throughout the organization.
You may find it useful to review the short document
CQI Importance and Features [PDF]
as you gather your thoughts about the key elements you want to include in your assessment, Issue Analysis and
.
By successfully completing this assessment, you will demonstrate your proficiency in the course competencies through the following assessment scoring guide criteria:
Competency 4: Apply leadership strategies to quality improvement in a health care organization.
Apply the
to develop a health care leadership strategy that focuses on optimizing health care system performance.
Propose evidence-based leadership strategies that will help to establish a safety and quality culture.
Propose evidence-based leadership and collaboration strategies to enlist the aid of key organizational leaders in establishing a safety and quality culture.
Determine opportunities to enlist the governing board’s aid in fostering a fair and just culture.
Write a clear, organized, persuasive, and generally error-free issue analysis and leadership action plan that promotes a culture of safety and quality and is reflective of professional communication in the health care field.
Provide citations and title and reference pages that conform to APA style and format.
To help prepare for successfully completing this assessment:
What information do you possess about the issue? (Note: You may not be able to answer all of these questions; just include the information you know.) Consider:
Who was involved?
During what process (clinical, communication, operational) did the issue occur?
When did the issue occur? During a particular shift? On a particular day? During peak hours? Under certain clinical circumstances?
Where did the issue occur?
What additional data about the incident would you like to collect and analyze?
Which best practices may not have been adhered to that may have contributed to the issue? (Note: This information will prove useful to you as you complete your analysis and leadership action plan.)
Write an analysis and leadership action plan for the issue you selected that will enable you to address the issue on an organization-wide basis. Please make sure to include all of the following headings and answer all of the questions underneath each heading.
IHI Triple Aim
Leadership
Leadership Action Plan
Remember that health care is an evidence-based field. You will need to cite a minimum of two credible references to support your analysis and action planning process.
In addition, in the health care field, your analysis and action plan would not typically be written in APA format. Do ensure that it is clear, persuasive, concise, organized, and without errors in grammar, punctuation, and spelling. Do provide citations and title and reference pages in APA format. Other leaders in your organization are going to want to know what sources you relied on to prepare your analysis and action plan.
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Importance and Features of Continuous Quality
Improvement (CQI)
Depending on the organization, continuous quality improvement (CQI) programs differ
in size and scope. Likewise, they may be called a variety of names, such as quality and
performance improvement, quality management, regulatory compliance, and quality
improvement (Sollecito & Johnson, 2013). Despite the progress in CQI, health care
quality improvement requires greater continued efforts due to the health care
environment’s vibrant and complex nature.
CQI is a “structured organizational process for involving personnel in planning and
executing a continuous flow of improvements to provide quality health care that meets
or exceeds expectations” (Sollecito & Johnson, 2013, p. 4). A common set of features
characterizes CQI, which includes the following (Sollecito & Johnson, 2013, pp. 4–5):
• A link to key elements of the organization’s strategic plan.
• A quality council made up of the institution’s top leadership.
• Training programs for personnel.
• Mechanisms for selecting improvement opportunities.
• Formation of process improvement teams.
• Staff support for process analysis and redesign.
• Personnel policies that motivate and support staff participation in process
improvement.
• Application of the most current and rigorous techniques of the scientific method
and statistical process control.
For CQI to flourish within an organization, it needs to be rooted in the organization’s
culture. Culture is the combination of shared attitudes, values, competencies, goals and
behaviors that define the organization’s practices (Silva, Barbosa, Padilha, & Malik,
2016). All stakeholders within the organization are responsible for health care quality
and safety.
Leaders who wish to create a safety culture must first assess their organization’s
readiness to implement the necessary safety practices. In addition, the Agency for
Healthcare Research and Quality (AHRQ) has created culture assessment tools that
allow organizations to identify benchmarks to establish a culture of safety in comparison
to similar hospitals or hospital units. The fair and just culture concept encourages
leaders to ask what happened instead of who made the error (Pelletier & Beaudin,
2018). Additionally, a fair and just culture aids in making the system safer. Stakeholders
understand errors are inevitable and that all errors need to be reported, even when
events may not cause patient harm (Pelletier & Beaudin, 2018).
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Pelletier and Beaudin emphasize how critical it is for leaders to assume responsibility
for driving improved patient safety practices throughout the organization (2018). To
demonstrate this, leaders need to incorporate health care safety practices as a part of
the organization’s strategic direction and to develop goals to guarantee adoption and
measurement of safe practices. The governing body or board of directors is responsible
for endorsing and upholding quality of care and preserving safety. Quality oversight is
recognized more clearly as a core fiduciary duty relating not only to financial health and
reputation but to safety and quality of care (Pelletier & Beaudin, 2018).
References
Pelletier, L. R., & Beaudin, C. L. (2018) HQ solutions: Resource for the healthcare quality
professional (4th ed.). Philadelphia, PA: Wolters Kluwer.
Silva, Natasha Dejigov Monteiro da, Barbosa, A. P., Padilha, K. G., & Malik, A. M. (2016).
Patient safety in organizational culture as perceived by leaderships of hospital institutions
with different types of administration. Revista Da Escola De Enfermagem Da U S P, 50(3),
490-497.
Sollecito, W. A., & Johnson, J. K. (2013). Mclaughlin and Kaluzny’s continuous quality
improvement in health care (4th ed.). Burlington, MA: Jones & Bartlett Learning.
The IHI Triple Aim
You may find it useful to revisit these suggested resources from Assessment 1 on the IHI Triple Aim as you formulate your thinking around the IHI Triple Aim section of your analysis and leadership action plan:
· Berwick, D. M., Nolan, T. W., & Whittington, J. (2008).
The triple aim: Care, health, and cost
. Health Affairs, 27(3), 759–769.
· Institute for Healthcare Improvement. (2018).
IHI triple aim initiative
. Retrieved from http://www.ihi.org/Engage/Initiatives/TripleAim/Pages/default.aspx
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